Christian Franklin

Scout’s note

Christian Franklin, a 26-year-old center fielder out of Overland Park, KS, is a 2021 fourth-round pick getting his first taste of the majors. In 16 games he's hitting .147 with 12 strikeouts and no extra-base hits, and his last 14 days at the MLB level — 4 games, .083, 5 strikeouts — say the adjustment is still ahead of him.

Note written Sep 2 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of August 31, 2026.

2026 salary

$0.02Mest

Tax hit

$0.02M

Service time

0 yr 0 d

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Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.

Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Baltimore Orioles.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of August 27, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.78M

Guaranteed

$0.78M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

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